The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-18

EDENrTO.N, NOT., Is, 81
EDITORIAL.

know why Edenton failed to command
the trade of other counties than her
own and, in our effort to ascertain the
cause, have found the task arduous
and growing more and more intricate.
If Edenton merchants were less &C
comodating than those ofOther places;
if they dealt in inferior goods and
sold them for higher prices than is
the custom Of some in other towns,
we could readily see through what now
appears to us as incomprehensible
A stranger might ask, how can you
expect the trade Of other counties all
of which having towns and each town
it's own merchants and tradesmen
equal to the demands of the entire
people? For answer we simply in
quire, how does Elizabeth City COM
mand the trans-Albemarle, the Cur
rituck, the Dare, the Camden and
part Of Perquimans, Gates and (con-
TESS we mus5) Chowan's trade? This
question is answerable. Think, mer-
chants of EdentOn, think a moment
and see if we do not shit the nail on
the head when we say it is your fault,
the fault Of the papers published in
Edenton and the fault Of some Of our
citizens whom you have suffered to
live INDUCING the mistaken notion
that elsewhere they could buy goods
cheaper than at home. Our papers
have not written enough of tie towns
material furnishing 1t is true we
have dealt largely upon some things,
such as fishing and farming, ETC., and
we have declared that our merchants
were selling dry goods, groceries,
boots, shoes. etc, cheap, but we have
never busted ourselves to inform the
public HOW CHEAP, and the merchants
have never urged US in. this matter
neither have they given US informa-
ton respecting it. Their advertise
ments are general in character and
contain nothing that would preclude
the idea that meat was selling at loo,
calico at SC. and sugar at SC, when,
IN fact, everything is down 20 and
50 per cent below the prices ofgoods
in the years, not OF the long, but, Of
the recent past. Advertise not only
through the columns of your paper,
bat inform the people by circular,
poster and letter as to the class Of
goods kept and the price asked for
them. Don't be sparing in your
advertising. Scatter copiously your
declarations of truth respecting every
thing you keep for sale and be assured
you will fail not in reaping a harvest
Of profitable and extensive trade if
YOU fail not in so doing. A gentle
man. one of our own citizens, was
startled when told that Mr.. Dixon
would duplicate bill which he was
then growing over as being astonish-
ingly cheap purchased elsewhere, and
we reckon the public will be aston
ished when we declare that NJ. II.
Dixon. r. j. Mitchell, Louis Levy.
A. J. Bateman, j. E. Bonner, a. L.
Gregory, O. Newman, ". j. Moore
& Co, Col. R. O.. Mitchell and r. B.
HAYES and others, whose cards do
not appear in our paper, keepers of
general merchandise, will duplicate
any bill purchased in any market
South of Baltimore. This sounds
large we know, but, 1.-The proof of the
pudding is the chewing of the bag
and our merchants stand ready 20
verify the statement if only our
friends from a distance will take
bite at the "bag." To get the people
even to place of worship you must
announce in almost pean tones the